Re: [GRASS-user] Determining Datum From Projection Coordinates

2011-03-02 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 15:50 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: Look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Transverse_Mercator_coordinate_system Some calculations should show you if it is meters ot not. tomdean ___ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists

Re: [GRASS-user] Tutorial Not Same as GRASS 6.4

2011-03-01 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 09:33 +0100, Sylvain Maillard wrote: > GRASS 6.4.0RC5+39438 is quite old, there are a lot of bug fixes and > improvements in the user interface, you will better have to download > the latest release from the website > (http://grass.osgeo.org/download/index.php). As the wxGUI

Re: [GRASS-user] Points, Distances, and, Bearings.

2011-02-28 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 19:36 -0800, Hamish wrote: > are you using a lat/lon location? how large an area will your > plot cover? continental? > Thanks for the reply. I will be away for a couple days, then, will check out the d.rhumbline, d.geodesic, r.transect, r.profile, and m.cogo modules. The

[GRASS-user] Points, Distances, and, Bearings.

2011-02-28 Thread Thomas D. Dean
I can get the Natural Earth data to display. Neat. How do I enter a point, a bearing from that point, and a distance from that point, plot the point, the bearing line, and, the distance arc? tomdean ___ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.o

[GRASS-user] Tutorial Not Same as GRASS 6.4

2011-02-28 Thread Thomas D. Dean
I have GRASS 6.4.0RC5+39438 (2009). I followed the tutorial, with lots of mental corrections and managed to get the example displayed. The tutorial is good, just needs some tweeking to match the GRASS display. A quick introduction to the 6.4 wxGUI and raster maps, http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Qui

Re: [GRASS-user] New User

2011-02-28 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 23:25 -0800, Hamish wrote: I know little or nothing about mapping. I want to understand how the data files and grass connect together. Some tutorial using known data followed by some information on various data formats and how to convert them into something GRASS can handle

[GRASS-user] New User

2011-02-27 Thread Thomas D. Dean
I am a new user, just discovered grass and OSGeo. My current interest is accessing the files from NaturalEarthData, converting them into matlab format, and, using octave to manipulate and/or plot. I use Linux and Unix. Octave 3.4.0, Gnuplot, Grass 6.4.0. This workstation has Ubuntu 10.04. I down